EVENTS

In honour of Queen Victoria’s 200th Birthday, the Fashion History Museum in Cambridge, Ontario is hosting a Victorian Tea. At the Victorian Tea, Food Historian Carolyn Blackstock will be speaking about her experience in 2014 when she cooked one recipe a day from the 1898 community cookbook The New Galt Cook Book (Galt is a town that is now part of Cambridge).

Recipes from The New Galt Cook Book will be served at the Tea, and that’s where I come in - I’m preparing the food. Admission to the museum from 12-5:00 is also included in the ticket price.

Both myself and Nelles Manor Museum have been pleasantly surprised by the overwhelming response to Nelles Manor’s forays into hosting open hearth cooking classes using their 230 year-old hearth! By popular demand, I’ll also be teaching an additional 6:00 class on November 4th:

On Nov 4th, we’ll be making the same historic autumn recipes as the sold-out open hearth classes in September.

Open Hearth Cooking Class Added at Nelles Manor

Sunday November 4, 20181:00 pm - SOLD OUTTickets are $30http://nellesmanor.ca/The Introductory Hearth Cooking Classes I'm teaching on September 9th at Nelles Manor Museum in Grimsby, Ontario both sold out well in advance, so we decided to add a third class! At this class we'll be making the same Autumn recipes as the classes in September, only at the end of the Fall season rather than the beginning.

I'm very excited to announce my first freelance historic cooking classes at Nelles Manor Museum in Grimsby, Ontario! Sunday September 9, 20181pm or 6pm (both classes SOLD OUT)Tickets are $30http://nellesmanor.ca/

Open hearth cookery is how I got my start in historic cooking, but it's been a few years so I'm looking forward to getting back in the saddle again. Expect some blog posts from the kitchen at Nelles Manor as I get to know the hearth and get prepared for these workshops.

Step back in time to prepare a simple seasonal autumn meal using recipes from the 19th-century, some of which were written by a Grimsby resident in 1840. You’ll try out a variety of hearth-cooking techniques in the museum’s original 230-year old open hearth, and you’ll also enjoy a tour of the museum, time to sit and enjoy the meal around the harvest table and a booklet of recipes to take home.

If you don't know where Grimsby is, it's an adorable town in Southern Ontario's wine country, located between Niagara & Hamilton just off the QEW.